Module:Signpost/archives index/sandbox

Module documentationcreatepurge

You might want to create a documentation page for this Scribunto module.
Editors can experiment in this module's sandbox (edit | diff) and testcases (create) pages.
Add categories to the /doc subpage. Subpages of this module.

local p = {}

local function catexists(title)
	local newTitle = mw.title.new
	if newTitle then
		return newTitle(title, 'Category').exists
	end
	return false
end

function p.main(frame)
	local args = frame:getParent().args
	
	local prefix = args.prefix or "Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Archives/"
	local startYear = tonumber(args.start) or 2005
	local finishYear = tonumber(args.finish) or tonumber(mw.language.new('en'):formatDate('Y'))
	local breakAfter = tonumber(args.break_after) or 10
	
	local output = {}
	local count = 0

	for year = startYear, finishYear do
		local linkTarget = string.format("%s%d", prefix, year)
		
		if catexists(linkTarget) then
			local entry = string.format("*[[%s|%d]]", linkTarget, year)
			count = count + 1
			
			if breakAfter > 0 and count % breakAfter == 0 then
				entry = entry .. "<br/>"
			end
			
			table.insert(output, entry)
		end
	end

	return table.concat(output, "\n")
end

return p